motor cia lincoln was 15 years old. he lived on the far western portion of virginia, a area called kentucky, meaning land of tomorrow or place of meadows. they were pioneers. and like all pioneers in the ohio river valley during the late 18th century they were lucky just to be alive. four years earlier the lincoln family had crossed through the cumberland gap, following a trail first blazed by daniel boone, and today, mortika aye i and is brothers. >> sigh ya, and thomas, were assisting his father, working to carve out an ever larger pocket of civilization on a parcel of land, on the branch of a branch of the branch of the ohio river, east of louisville, as the boys tried to position the fence, shot rounded. their father felled ground and out of the woods tame two -- came two indians. josiah ran, and so did motor cia, who reached the cabin his father built just as he heard his other brother cry out. he turned to see thomas, grasped by the hair and trousers, being carried toward the tree line. he knew the indians didn't